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Re: Home of Offtopic
Posted by: RookeeAlding (68.208.65.---)
Date: September 06, 2007 02:34PM

Is your screen name becoming a character in it's own right?
or is it just an extention of who you are and who you want to be?

Does having a constent screen name create the idea of a "real" person? or does it create a dissoiative identity?

If you have multipul screen names could be be psycologily considered a person who suffers from disasosiative Idenity disorder(multiple personalities)?

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by the way...I've been convicted of Gramatical Homicide, and charged 18 years to life, so don't bother telling me about all the spelling mistakes. It's already on my record.

Re: Home of Offtopic
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: September 06, 2007 07:12PM

My alias exists as a completely separate entity. He even posts when I am not here. (Like now.)

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My computer beat me at chess, but I won at kickboxing

Re: Home of Offtopic
Posted by: MuseSusan (---.union.edu)
Date: September 06, 2007 10:12PM

My screen name has forced me to sign a disclaimer that anything I say in a non-internet context represents my own views only and cannot be taken to represent the views of MuseSusan, Inc.

On the topic of off-topic-ness, considering that the first post instructed us to use non-sequiturs, and yet a good portion of the posts so far have either been in direct response to the post above or have addressed the topic of being off-topic, I'd say we're going off-topic rather nicely.

To get back to the topic at hand, I'd just like to add, "banana".

Re: Home of Offtopic
Posted by: Jazz_Sue (---.in-addr.btopenworld.com)
Date: September 07, 2007 10:45AM

The Cookster Wrote:
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> I once found a dodgy hazelnut in a bar that I
> bought in the local tuck shop and that put me off
> Topic for a while.


Where I live, all the bars are full of nuts - mostly female ones. Dunno if any of them are called Hazel, though.

Re: Home of Offtopic
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: September 08, 2007 10:44AM

As there is another thread for surreal non-sequiters I won't post on this one.

Re: Home of Offtopic
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (58.163.131.---)
Date: September 08, 2007 03:32PM

Ommmmmmmmm....

Re: Home of Offtopic
Posted by: bunyip (---.as1.adl6.internode.on.net)
Date: September 09, 2007 03:05PM

Mystic Skidmarks,

You have established an interesting off topic, for if you are not going to post on this forum how did we get your message conveying this?

Perhaps this is a manifestation of a screen name becoming an identity in its own right and manifesting itself all over the place. You would think it would have the decency to manifest in one spot only. Definitely not house trained.

Peraps when Bonzai Kitten comes back from being in touch with her infinite essence she may be able to provide suitable words.

Re: Home of Offtopic
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (58.163.130.---)
Date: September 09, 2007 04:10PM

I have learned many things, my child, the first of which is "Dont pick at it, or it'll only get worse."

Re: Home of Offtopic
Posted by: SkidMarks (---.manc.cable.ntl.com)
Date: September 09, 2007 04:24PM

I have never posted on this thread, not even this time.

Re: Home of Offtopic
Posted by: OC Not (---.socal.res.rr.com)
Date: September 10, 2007 04:00AM

Are you sure?

I am, Sir Frederick.

If you're Sir Frederick, then who am I?

You're Sir Frederick, silly!

Sir Frederick Silly? I thought I was Sir Frederick Gass!

<brought to you by Spike Jones & the City Slickers>

Re: Home of Offtopic
Posted by: bunyip (---.as1.adl6.internode.on.net)
Date: September 11, 2007 08:55AM

Aaaahhhhh!!!!!!!!!!


Culture at last!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: Home of Offtopic
Posted by: OC Not (68.121.255.---)
Date: September 12, 2007 05:16PM

You betcha.

Re: Home of Offtopic
Posted by: Lymond (---.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com)
Date: September 17, 2007 09:26PM

I do declare, did somebody say the moons a balloon?

Re: Home of Offtopic
Posted by: bunyip (---.as1.adl6.internode.on.net)
Date: September 18, 2007 10:15AM

Yeah, there are di*kheads everywhere.

We all know its cheese.

Home of Offtopic
Posted by: zendao42 (---.bhm.bellsouth.net)
Date: September 18, 2007 11:12PM

bunyip Wrote:
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> Yeah, there are di*kheads everywhere.
>
> We all know its cheese.
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Indeed, I'm one of those Dick Dale fans-
now, where'd you hide the cheese?

Re: Home of Offtopic
Posted by: BibwitHart (---.rivernet.com.au)
Date: September 19, 2007 01:22PM

As the Monkey said to the banana "Give us some skin, we about to begin!"



<One of my subsequent names is Hazel>

Re: Home of Offtopic
Posted by: Bonzai Kitten (149.135.105.---)
Date: September 24, 2007 01:41PM

I'm parched. Time for a cuppa. Stick the kettle on, someone!

Re: Home of Offtopic
Posted by: MartinB (---.cache.ru.ac.za)
Date: September 24, 2007 06:06PM

*pokes power button on kettle with Pointy Stick MkII (tm)*

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

Re: Home of Offtopic
Posted by: Shakespeare (---.socal.res.rr.com)
Date: September 26, 2007 04:40AM

sic

Re: Home of Offtopic
Posted by: Ptolemy (---.range86-142.btcentralplus.com)
Date: September 26, 2007 08:43AM

Ow! That was my pointy stick you just electrocuted!

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